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Trevor Penning suffered Lisfranc injury in season-ending loss to Panthers

Saints coach Dennis Allen says Trevor Penning suffered a Lisfranc injury in their season-ending loss to Panthers:

Trevor Penning exited Sunday’s season-ending loss to the Carolina Panthers with a foot injury, and now we’ve got some details from New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen. Allen says Penning suffered a Lisfranc injury to his right foot, which NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill reports should sideline him for five or six months. That puts Penning’s return in the middle of June, just in time for organized team activities during the summer. He should be good to go for training camp.

Still, that’s brutal. Penning started his rookie year with turf toe surgery on his left foot. He’s ending his rookie year with Lisfranc surgery on his right foot. It’s a really tough break for an inexperienced player who needs all the reps he can get after making the jump from a lower level of competition.

Penning’s lone start this year came in that regular season finale with the Panthers, and he put a lot of quality reps on tape as a run blocker — though he got beat here and there in pass protection, which makes sense given his skill set and strengths and weaknesses.

Hopefully his body responds well to treatment and he’s able to return to form and compete for a starting job over the summer. That’s not what you want to be saying about a player the Saints effectively traded the tenth overall pick in this year’s draft to acquire, but it is what it is. Let’s hope Penning plays well enough in the future to justify that move.

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OKC Thunder: Chet Holmgren underwent successful season-ending surgery to fix Lisfranc injury

Chet Holmgren officially underwent surgery and will be out for the entire season.

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced on Tuesday that No. 2 pick Chet Holmgren underwent successful surgery to repair his Lisfranc injury.

The procedure was performed by Dr. David Porter in Indiana.

Holmgren suffered the season-ending injury during a Seattle Pro-Am game.

When asked about a date for surgery last week, Thunder general manager Sam Presti did not offer details and said it would happen in the near future. Five days later and Holmgren underwent the knife.

“We don’t have something specific, but it will be in the coming weeks, I would say,” Presti said. “There’s no specific timeline as to when you need to do this. But we’d obviously like to do it earlier once we can get the logistics of that handled.”

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Taysom Hill hits the practice field with no limitations after injury-plagued 2021 season

Taysom Hill hit the practice field with no limitations after an injury-plagued 2021 season. He’s making plays just six months removed from a Lisfranc injury:

Taysom Hill went out for practice at New Orleans Saints training camp like he’s done so many times before, but with a big difference from what he’s experienced before — his usual red no-contact jersey was exchanged for the same white threads every other offensive player was wearing. It’s the final stamp on what we’ve been told all along: Hill’s run as a full-time quarterback is over. He may get a few snaps from out of the shotgun, but Hill’s days at the team facility will start in the tight ends room, not with the other passers.

Instead, he went through drills with the tight ends, and didn’t look out of place. Hill reeled in a pass from Jameis Winston for a big gain down the seam. On another play, our own Ross Jackson observed, Hill burnt the linebacker covering him and forced C.J. Gardner-Johnson to rotate over the top to compensate. The pass from Andy Dalton was underthrown and tipped by a defender, sure, but credit that to the opportunistic defense turning things around after Hill created a problem for them.

It’s a helpful illustration of the role the Saints envision for Hill now that his biggest supporter is out of the building. Sean Payton worked with Pete Carmichael (and once upon a time, Joe Brady) to design a creative set of plays maximizing Hill’s athleticism. Big-play opportunities down the seam. QB power runs through the heart of opposing defenses. Blocked punts on special teams. And, yeah, the occasional scattershot pass. It’s up to Carmichael to figure out the best usage for Hill moving forwards, and the very early returns suggest he’s got a good idea of where to put No. 7.

But the real story here is the quick recovery that Hill made from a long list of injuries he accumulated last season. He suffered a Lisfranc injury in the 2021 season finale while playing through a case of plantar fascia in the other foot. At the same time, he was managing a torn ligament in his throwing hand’s middle finger. And that’s all after he missed most of October reeling from the effects of a serious concussion. To bounce back from all of those ailments so soon — much less to do so and then make a couple of positive plays in the first day of training camp practices — is impressive.

Hopefully Hill didn’t rush himself back to action. Whether the Saints see him doing damage as a receiver, runner, blocker, or something else entirely (Dennis Allen has joked about moving him to linebacker), he brings value to the team that others don’t. They’ll be counting on him in some big spots in 2022.

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Marcus Davenport received second opinion, diagnosed with Lisfranc injury

New Orleans Saints defensive end Marcus Davenport was reportedly diagnosed with a Lisfranc injury after consulting with a specialist.

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New Orleans Saints fans were struck with bad news on Tuesday evening when it was reported that second-year defensive end Marcus Davenport suffered a serious foot injury during Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, and that the ailment was expected to require season-ending surgery.

On Wednesday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport clarified that Davenport is dealing with a Lisfranc injury in his foot, which was diagnosed after he received a second opinion from Green Bay-based specialist Dr. Robert Anderson. Anderson performed the corrective surgery on Davenport’s turf toe injury after the 2018 season concluded, though it’s unclear whether he’ll be the doctor to treat Davenport after this Lisfranc issue.

So what is a Lisfranc injury? These issues strike the middle of the foot, hitting the long metatarsal bones that maintains the arch in the foot and allows people to push off and accelerate. It’s a painful condition that prevents those affected from putting weight on the injured foot, and is more common in football and rugby than, say, basketball or baseball.

The next question: how long will Davenport be out? According to a study completed before the 2018 NFL season, NFL athletes are typically sidelined for 10 months after surgery, give or take as much as three months. Every injury and every player is different, and their sample size was limited to 47 athletes (35 from football, and 12 from rugby). So some variance is to be expected.

It’s not realistic to expect the 6-foot-6, 265-pound Davenport to return as quickly as Baltimore Ravens rookie Marquise Brown, the 5-foot-9, 166-pound wide receiver who missed just seven months. A more comparable situation would be Washington Redskins defensive lineman Jonathan Allen (6-foot-3, 300 pounds), who went down with the same injury five weeks into his 2017 rookie season but returned in time for training camp — an absence of about eight months.

Davenport hasn’t had surgery yet, so there isn’t even a projected time table for his return in place. But precedent suggests he could miss a game or two to start the 2020 season, though things obviously could go better or worse depending on how his body responds to treatment.

Coincidentally, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton spent most of the 2019 season trying to avoid surgery, but he went under the knife on Monday for an injury that’s comparable to what Davenport is experiencing. New York-based Dr. Martin O’Malley operated on Newton, and the Panthers don’t yet have any expectations of when Newton will be ready to play football again. His situation (and Davenport’s) illustrates just how common these kinds of injuries are in football, and how quickly things can escalate in such a physically-demanding game.

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